True history…

Posted on by September 30, 2018

Eight minutes of your time that will be well spent. This is a well researched, and well presented video on the ‘assault rifle’ terminology, media use, and anti-gunner’s use.

What is truly frustrating to me is the ‘purposeful’ misuse of the term to, yet again, advance a false agenda of gun control. When you couple this with the demonization of the NRA and its members, it is, IMHO, a concerted effort to shut us up/criminalize us in the minds of the general public.

YMMV, IANAL, and I didn’t stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night either…

h/t Stretch

Sigh…

Posted on by September 29, 2018

I put this rant up on Friday on FB after hearing that Flake had been buffaloed into the BS extension of Kavanaugh by the Dems.

Welp, Flake flaked… He bowed to his democrat masters, and got another dig in at Trump… Now he’s put the administration in a position to FORCE an FBI investigation… And delayed Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

This congress is an abortion! The dems, led in this case by Feinstein,Harris, and Hirono are determined to destroy America as we know it. They don’t give a shit about anything but power, and will do anything, destroy anyone, whatever it takes to get that power.

If this isn’t a perfect example of why we need term limits, I don’t know what is…

Hold data for at least 6 weeks, drop it at the last minute, push the confirmation vote a week, pay for the lawyer, lie through their teeth to the members of the committee, and I wonder what they threatened Flake with, this morning…

Now they will have another week to ‘find’ more accusers, attempting to push this beyond the November election… And continue the destruction of the impartiality of congress…

We all know this is not going to be the end of it… It’s not going to be a week, It’ll be two, or three, or four weeks, and IF they FBI gets the reports in, then the Dems will want the witnesses to appear… yada, yada, yada…

And it generated a number of comments, some back and forths with a Dem or two, who didn’t like my answers, especially about the Dems leadership rotting in hell, which she took personally.

Putting up Galatians 6:7  wasn’t appreciated either- ‘Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap’.

So Saturday a poor me post went up… Sigh… I guess she ‘thought’ everyone would side with her, which didn’t happen and now it’s ‘our’ fault.

I never said ALL who are in that party are evil? Never will say that. But if you are going to support the representatives of the party, especially after they come out and specifically SAY how they want to take us down, how can you escape being lumped in with them? If you vote for them, you are fostering their evil agenda. That is why the huge push for open borders, illegals (that they immediately get on welfare), and the other disaffecteds.

Are their evil people in the Republican Party? Absolutely. But you will never hear one of them espousing the evil Anti-America, pro-communist, pro-tyrant. pro-activist judges agenda that the Dems are OPENLY promoting, because the Republicans KNOW they will lose the support of the voters for such. The Dems are seeking the votes of those who hate America, and hate Americans. Huge difference.

This abortion of a SCOTUS confirmation has lowered my opinion of BOTH parties even further, and it’s just one more example for the billboard of getting term limits, as far as I’m concerned.

As an independent, I can no longer support ANY incumbents, not anymore…

I know I’m a grumpy old man, but dammit I didn’t spend most of my life defending this country to watch it get destroyed by a bunch of sleazy, power hungry politicians, just so they can line their own pockets and build their little empires!!!

Yea!!!

Posted on by September 28, 2018

Kinda, sorta…

I found some film, but only in 120. And nothing that resembled the old PAN or PLUS-X. Only thing I found was TRI-X 400 ASA. in B&W

Found some color, both 100 and 400 ASA so we’ll see how bad I can screw that up… LOL

AND found the waist viewer, which I actually like better!

In the boo category, never found the light meter, but one of my readers is sending me one! And much thanks to him!!!

And I fiddled with the camera over the last couple of days, and I ‘think’ I remember enough to at least take pictures with it… We shall see!

TBT…

Posted on by September 26, 2018

Everybody is going old school on cameras, and I dug this thing out of storage… It’s an original Mamiya 645 1000s from 1976. I bought it new in Japan in 1976 in Misawa.

And I actually found both lenses, and batteries! That was an excursion in itself… Local camera shop gave me the Labrador head cock, and didn’t even know what kind it took. They tried to tell me there wasn’t a 3V flat battery… sigh… Dug out the owner’s manual, and hit an Interstate Batteries store, and low and behold, they actually HAD not one, but TWO batteries in the correct size and voltage (bought both of them)! And the correct 6V main battery for the shutter. Interestingly, the original part numbers for the batteries has changed, who’d a thunk it… Sigh… 

And when I say manual, I mean MANUAL everything… This is NOT a point and shoot by any means. An original 80mm 1.9 lens, and an original 150mm 3.5 lens. Now, the question is, where the hell is the light meter???

I know I had one, and I ‘thought’ it was in the camera bag, along with a waist level viewfinder. Guess I’ll be excavating some of the stuff in storage. Sigh…

The other fun part is do I still remember how to use this thing? It’s been… years… Maybe the old hindbrain still has those memories somewhere in the banks, if I can just dust them off and pull them forward?

If nothing else, I’ll be giving folks a good laugh next weekend.

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One to think about…

Posted on by September 25, 2018

Our ancestors are spinning at high RPM at what is going on today.

I saw this yesterday, and it really hit home, especially where we are in this country today.  Take a moment and read it, please. It was written in the late 1940s and is on a monument to the WWII dead. Note that it doesn’t specify male, female, asian, black, white, hispanic, christian, jewish, or atheist.

That last paragraph really got my attention. We’re nowhere close to that, and on a slippery slope heading in the wrong direction, IMHO.

Your thoughts?

 

Hrmmm…

Posted on by September 24, 2018

This is interesting…

Apparently the so called done deal for Dr. Ford to testify is maybe NOT so done…

Apparently bringing in an outside lawyer to do the questioning that isn’t ‘fair and respectful’ is nervous making. Full article, HERE.

And another dig into the WAPO story by the WSJ, HERE.

And some Dems are backing off on the ‘support’, saying this is a bridge too far, and not the way the Senate should be doing business… Ya think???

And apparently the other accuser’s story is coming apart at the seams. You’ve got to wonder when the NYT passes on it, and they are hard left against Trump and any and all appointees!

The paper said it interviewed “several dozen people” in a vain attempt to find someone with “firsthand knowledge” to corroborate Ramirez’s allegations.

Full article, HERE.

This is turning into a cluster$(%& of huge proportions, and it seems nobody can keep their stories straight.  Thursday should be interesting…

 

Your tax dollars at work…

Posted on by September 23, 2018

Exercise Valiant Shield, held every other year in the Philippine Sea. Just a ‘reminder’ to those who think they can easily overrun any US Forces in the 7th Fleet.

You can read about the exercise, HERE.

It’s also a place where ‘new’ technology can get tested in a ‘highly stressing’ environment. 🙂

And they get to shoot things too!!! 😀

In other news, North Platte, Nebraska has stepped up once again… Following the tradition the town set in WWII… HERE. Good on them!!!

Food pron…

Posted on by September 22, 2018

Weather had been lousy all day yesterday, and is supposed to be the same through today and into tomorrow… Rain, colder (for Texas), and more rain and wind…

It was my turn to cook for the group, so… Comfort food!

At least for southern versions or Texas versions of comfort food.

Meatloaf, with a twist.  Rotel and a little good chili powder! And BACON! 🙂

And you can’t have meatloaf without mashed potatoes, and something green! In this case, seasoned turnips. And of course, cornbread.

It was well received, and there are a total of three pieces of meatloaf left out of three pounds!

Today will be a writing day, since the weather outside is… NOT lovely.

Edit- By requests, here is the recipe I used.

Ingredients

  • 1 medium onion (finely chopped)
  • 2 small cloves garlic (finely minced)
  • 2 bell pepper (finely chopped)
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 pounds ground beef
  • 1 pound ground sausage (I used Jimmy Deans original)
  • 2 cups bread crumbs
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon GOOD chili powder (I used Spice House Medium Chili Powder)
  • 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 can original Rotel and green chilies (drained)
  • Splash of milk
  • 1 pound of thick cut bacon on top
  • Bake 60 minutes at 350, then 20 more minutes at 400 after draining excess liquid (primarily due to size, if you use a smaller amount of meat/ingredients, you can probably get by with 60 minutes at 350 to cook all the way through.

TBT…

Posted on by September 16, 2018

I grew up in Louisiana and southwest Arkansas during the 50s and 60s, a time when everyone treated each other like family. Our neighbors parents disciplined us like their own. We didn’t eat fast food….We drank Kool-aid or Tang, ate bologna & cheese sandwiches, peanut butter sandwiches, and had fish on Friday and chicken on Sundays. Stores were not open on Sunday, so we went to church, had dinner at home, and visited family and grandparents or went for a ride in the afternoon. We went outside to play games like red rover, baseball in a field with the neighbors kids of all ethnicities, hide and seek, marbles in the dirt, jump rope, hopscotch, kickball , had water fights, played football or basketball for hours and raced against each other down the street on our bikes. There was no bottled water. We drank out of the green garden hose. No cable tv, we had three channels if we were lucky. No cell phones!

We watched cartoons on Saturday morning went outside and played until dark. We would ride our bikes without helmets for hours, all without a cell phone or electronic games. We went to library for books and were in the reading club during the summer.
We weren’t afraid of ANYTHING except our parents. You LEARNED from your parents and grandparents instead of disrespecting them and treating them as if they knew nothing. What they said might as well have been the gospel. If someone had a fight, that’s what it was…a fist fight and you were back to being friends. we all had BB guns and .22s but would never thought of taking a person’s life, much less their own. Squirrels and birds, and later deer were fair game though. And you’d better be close enough to home to hear your mom or dad yell for you to get home at night, or be at a neighbor’s house!

School was MANDATORY. We had God, The Pledge of Allegiance, and we placed our hand over our heart!!! We watched what we said around our elders because we knew If we DISRESPECTED any grown up we would get our behinds busted, it wasn’t called abuse, it was discipline! You didn’t hear curse words on the radio or TV, and IF you cursed you did it away from the public or you got your mouth washed out with soap. Please and Thank you were part of our daily dialogue!

And the other thing I remember is that very few kids or adults had allergies… Because we played outside, got dirty, and our parents didn’t care!

Truly a world of difference from the children of today. Sigh…

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